[HOT] Fw: 2014

[Mikel Maron]

Dear HOT Community,

The HOT Membership just concluded its election. Results are on the wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections_2014


Below a message just sent to members at . This should be addressed to you all as well!

Thanks so much
Mikel
 
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron



On Monday, March 3, 2014 9:21 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
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>We have just concluded our membership meeting. We weren't able to obtain a quorum, in order to conduct new business, so officially, we simply had announcement of the results of the poll. The details will be posted soon by Boris, but in case you have not heard, Russell is confirmed as Chair of Voting Members, and the elected Board (in order of nomination) is Mikel Maron, Heather Leson, Schuyler Erle, Severin Menard, Harry Wood, Claire Halleux and Jaakko Helleranta. Congratulations everyone. Thank you everyone who participated in the vote and the election process. Thank you all candidates for your energy and support. Thank you outgoing members Pierre, Nicolas, and Joseph for their contributions to the Board last year, you are invaluable community members.
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>This has been a super challenging week for all of us, there's no denying. Even so, hugely important issues were raised. More voices were heard from membership than at any point in the past. That's so important, thank you. We must find more ways to connect with each other across this still big planet.
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>I certainly heard you all, and I'm ready to continue working with everyone. For myself, I appreciate your support that has lead to another year for serving on the HOT Board. If the Board will have me again, I'd like to continue serving as President. I know again, this is going to be hard and time consuming and challenging.
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>There will certainly be more soon for everyone. The Board will need to meet, but we will want to do it differently. Members are going to have a significant role. Let's give ourselves a little space to figure out how everything is going to work. This will be a year of listening and growing. We will all be challenged by this work, but we need to do this to better serve all the communities in which we work, including our own. The opportunity for everyone to contribute to this conversation will come soon. We will be organizing another try for reaching the quroum of our Annual Meeting next week. I might recommend that we take a short breather and reflect on how we can come together to shape HOT into the best organization it can be.
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>Thank you!
>Mikel
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>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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